Cheap web hosting that starts free and stays 99p

£0.99 a month, billed monthly, with the first 30 days free. Not an introductory rate — that is the renewal price too. NVMe storage, DirectAdmin and free SSL included.

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  • No card to start
  • No setup fee
  • Then £0.99/month

What it costs, from day one

Nothing to pay for the first 30 days, and no card needed to start. After that, £0.99 a month if you decide to stay.

  1. Today £0

    Create your account and get a complete hosting account. No card details are asked for.

  2. Days 1 to 30 £0

    Build your site and use every feature. Nothing is charged during the free period.

  3. Day 31 onwards £0.99/month

    Only if you choose to continue. Pay the first monthly invoice and your hosting carries on unchanged.

No setup fee, no hidden charges and no price rise after the first year. A domain isn’t included: bring one you already own (how to connect it). How the 30 free days work

Where cheap hosting hides its costs

The advertised price of budget hosting is usually not the price. The pattern is consistent across the industry and worth naming:

The renewal cliff. £1.99 a month sounds excellent until you read that it applies to the first 12 or 36 months only, after which it becomes £8.99. Because the low rate usually requires paying three years up front, the real decision is made long before you notice.

Paid extras that should be standard. SSL certificates charged annually. Backups as a paid add-on. A fee to migrate your site in. A fee to restore a backup you already paid to have taken.

“Unlimited” that is not. Unlimited storage and bandwidth are always bounded by a fair-use clause several pages into the terms. The number exists; it is simply not on the pricing page.

The domain lock-in. A free domain for year one, renewing at well above market rate, on an account where transferring away is made deliberately tedious.

Web hosting for under £1 a month

Traxio is 99p web hosting: £0.99 a month, billed monthly, after 30 free days. That figure is the whole charge. Traxio isn’t VAT-registered, so no VAT is added, and there are no card or processing fees.

Plenty of budget and low-cost plans advertise a similar figure. The difference to check is what happens next: whether the price needs a three-year prepayment, whether it rises at renewal, and whether SSL or backups cost extra. Here, none of those apply. Month two costs the same as year five. How hosting can cost 99p sets out where the savings come from.

It’s a UK-based business pricing in pounds, and every account runs the full DirectAdmin panel, so it’s also cheap DirectAdmin hosting with PHP, MySQL and email included.

What a year really costs

£0.99 per month is £11.88 per year. There is no setup fee, no SSL charge, no backup add-on and no cancellation fee, so £11.88 is the total.

You will also need a domain, which isn’t included in the £0.99. If you don’t already own one, check the renewal price as well as the first-year price before you register it. Using your own domain with Traxio.

So a complete, self-hosted website on your own domain — with SSL, email addresses, WordPress and a real control panel — costs somewhere around £20 to £27 for the first year, and roughly the same every year after. There is no year-two surprise, because there is no year-two price.

Where we are genuinely worse than a £6 host

You do not get web development support. You get a knowledge base and an AI help desk covering hosting and server matters, which is quick for common problems and slower for unusual ones. You also get modest resource limits — 3GB and 100GB a month — rather than generous ones. If your site is commercially critical, or busy, pay more elsewhere. That is a sincere recommendation, not false modesty.

Simple web hosting for £0.99 a month

One plan with everything included. Your first 30 days are free with no card required, then it’s £0.99 a month if you choose to continue — with no setup fee and no price rise at renewal.

The hosting is self-managed through DirectAdmin, with a large knowledge base and an AI help desk that escalates to a person when needed. That’s how the price stays this low.

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Traxio web hosting

  • 3GB NVMe disk spaceIncluded
  • 100GB bandwidth a monthIncluded
  • DirectAdmin control panelIncluded
  • Free SSL, issued and renewed automaticallyIncluded
  • An email account on your own domainIncluded
  • One-click WordPress and 400+ appsIncluded
  • FTP, SFTP and a browser file managerIncluded
  • A MySQL database with phpMyAdminIncluded
  • PHP 7.4 to 8.3, switchable per domainIncluded
  • Cron jobs and daily offsite backupsIncluded

First 30 days£0.00

Then, per month£0.99

No setup fee. No VAT or card fees added.

Frequently asked questions

Two reasons. Support runs through a knowledge base and an AI help desk rather than a large staffed department, which is by far the biggest cost most hosts carry. And we publish honest resource limits rather than “unlimited” plans that require overselling to work.
No. It is the renewal price. The industry norm of £1.99 for the first year followed by £7.99 thereafter is exactly the practice we are trying not to copy. What you pay in month two is what you pay in year five.
Two honest ones. First, the resource limits are modest — 3GB storage and 100GB monthly bandwidth — so a high-traffic site will outgrow this plan. Second, there’s no phone line, live chat or staffed support desk: tickets are answered by an AI help desk first, with a person stepping in when one is escalated. If those two things matter to you, a more expensive host is genuinely the better choice and we would rather you knew now.
No setup fee, no admin fee, no charge for SSL and no fee to cancel. The price is £0.99 a month. The only way to pay more is an optional add-on you choose yourself in the client area, such as an extra email account or database for £0.99 one-off.
No. You pay nothing at all for the first 30 days and are not asked for card details to start. After that, billing is monthly, so the commitment is a pound at a time and you can stop from the client area whenever you like.
Not inherently, and price correlates poorly with speed in this market. Our accounts sit on NVMe SSD storage, which is faster than the older SATA drives some hosts still use. What cheap hosting does buy you less of is headroom — on a busy shared server, a plan with tight limits gives you less room to absorb a traffic spike.
Yes. £0.99 is the total monthly charge. Traxio isn’t VAT-registered, so no VAT is added, and there are no card or processing fees. Optional add-ons, such as more disk space, are the only way the bill goes up, and only if you buy them.
Free hosts cost nothing but usually come with adverts, a subdomain or tight limits. Among paid hosting, compare the price you’ll pay at renewal, not the first-year offer, and check whether it needs a long prepayment. Traxio is £0.99 a month, billed monthly, after 30 free days, and that is also the renewal price.
Yes. Traxio is £0.99 a month with nothing added: no VAT, no card fee and no setup fee. Your first 30 days are free with no card needed, so the first payment is a month after you sign up.

Free Hosting (30 Days)

How the free trial works before billing starts.

Plan & Specification

The full list of what is and is not included.

Help Desk

Knowledge base first, then a ticket. What we cover.

About Traxio

Who runs this and why the price is what it is.

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Then £0.99 a month if you decide to stay. No card required to start.

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